Audacity - Documentation and download information for using Audacity to record an audio track for your movie.
GarageBand - Tutorials and documentation for creating your own music track.
iMovie - Tutorials and documentation
Screencastify - Simple tool to record videos of computer desktop, application or browser tab directly in Chrome browser
Storyboarding - How to create a simple story board for a short video (music video) with storyboard template
Prezi - Presentation software
SiideShare - Upload a PowerPoint presentation for sharing via the web.
Don't forget Google Slides and YouTube as destinations for your project.
Mount Holyoke has a Library Research Guide for images for finding images using the library databases to which we subscribe. These images must be carefully evaluated since many are under copyright and are not appropriate for projects you will publish to YouTube or other public spaces. This guide also lists number of different presentation tools that may be useful for your work.
The Library Research Guide Legal Sources for Multimedia Projects has much more information about finding copyright free images, audio and video clips including links to search engines that are specifically designed to find multimedia content.
Criteria to use when assessing the quality of the information you find and deciding which sources to use for your research
Not all information resources are created equal! Be sure you think about what kind of information you are using. Some quick guidelines:
U. of California, Berkeley Library Guide for Evaluating Resources A guide to evaluating resources and distinguishing Scholarly & Popular sources.
An annotated bibliography contains your list of references with additional "annotations" following each reference. For this class the references should be formatted in APA style. After each reference you should provide three annotations:a synopsis of the findings in this resource, a critique of those findings, and how you plan to use this resource in your project.
There are many good sample annotated bibliographies online and explanations of how to build them. These are some worthwhile examples:
If you are going to film interviews or take identifiable photographs of others for your project, you need to obtain a release, their permission to use the photograph, audio or video of them in you published project. There are numerous release forms available on the web that will serve this purpose. Use one of the forms from the search below and adapt it to fit your needs:
Permission/Release for Filming
